MARKINGS ON S. S. KAMENEV’S REPORT AND A NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

Written:Written on September 23, 1920Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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# ||2)Thelimit of territorial concessions on our part can be thefrontier along the river Shara,
the Oginsky Canal, the rivers Yaselda and
Styr and further along the state frontier between Russia and Eastern
Galicia.Shifting our frontier still more to the east would create
extremely difficult strategic conditions for us, depriving us of such
important railway junctions as Baranovichi, Luninets, Sarny and
Rovno. Moreover, the state of our armies and the strategic position
in general do not call for such a big sacrifice....

#ComradeChicherin,

Thisis the frontier—maximum. Adopted in the C.C. It
must be repeated
exactly.[1]

[1]Lenin’snote to Chicherin was written on a report from
Commander-in-Chief S. S. Kamenev concerning the strategic importance
of the new frontier between Soviet Russia and Poland, about which
negotiations were then being conducted between representatives
of the two countries at the peace conference in Riga.

Seealso notes 427 and 433.